Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

Bet, what did the valley feel like under his feet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: valley · What happens: feel · To what, where: Bet

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 627 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai rides Kala Nag to the secret elephant gathering» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feel	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 feel	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 valley	det
6	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bet	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 feet	case
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feel	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the valley	Bet				like valley's feet	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Muddy, with sticky damp soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 soil	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 soil	case
4	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
5	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Wet ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ground	amod
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Cold and wet, like a marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wet	cc
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cold	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 marsh	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 marsh	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 marsh	det
7	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cold	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Squashy, with squelching feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squashy	squashy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feet	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feet	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	squelching	squelch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 feet	amod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squelch	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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